"Deal Or No Deal" is the most interesting new game show we've had for a while in the UK. It's a format that has been used in countries on at least four continents, as lovingly compared and contrasted by brigbother. After months of speculation, Britain finally has its own version, stripped across the Channel 4 schedules from Monday to Saturday at 4:15pm. It ( Read more... )

Tons of people far brighter than me will have thought of this before, but it occurs to me that the apparently most relevant part of the LiveJournal FAQ does not prohibit you from using LiveJournal's Scrapbook photo-sharing feature for steganographic purposes - specifically, storing arbitrary content of your choice within an image file so that you ( Read more... )

1) Today is Chrismahanukwanzakah. Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah to you all!

One of the last things I saw on CNN before I flew from ATL last time was Richard Branson promoting it. He cheerfully admitted that he couldn't pronounce it, not least because he's dyslexic. Rather a flawed concept for a promotion, I'd've thought.

2) The most recent British ( Read more... )

• Some of you might like to be reminded that there's a Friends-locked post with my address and phone number in. There's a link to it in the userinfo if ever you lose it.
• The UK's Top Ten Williamses List, December 2005
  
  10) Danny Williams. British heavyweight boxer famous for beating a fading-really-badly Mike Tyson. Unsuccessful in a European title ( Read more... )